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made her think she was pink...
Darrach paints all his characters with rich strokes. Almost too rich, in fact. He describes one U.S. chess official as a "Huckleberry Babbitt," a man whose "pink scalp looks like a ham in mourning." Such vivid excesses might be well placed in a short treatment. But served in book-length bunches, the cumulative effect is a bit like overdosing on chocolate fudge...
Mexico's flamboyance--including tombs painted laundry blue, pink, and red, or churches topped with neon crosses--captivates her. She craves people and chases experience, repelled by the "crustacean" life of gradual withdrawal from the world as passing years reveal its threatening aspects. Her unembarrassed receptivity to the emotional and physical aspects of human beings is evoked in an impression of Sierra Madre...
...parallel economic, industrial and social transitions taking place in each country. Perhaps his evasion of this material is a blessing, for when he attempts to analyze American society, he inevitably stumbles. In his criticism of American vulgarity--which he seems to find epitomized in the phenomenon of ubiquitous pink bubble gum--he succumbs to snobbish cultural comparisons not unlike those indulged in by early twentieth century American Anglophiles. Such generalizing is absurd in a huge and diversified society...
...private fantasy. Photography, which has so long been used to mirror the physical world, is here being used to mirror the individual psyche. Many of the images thus created-especially Robert Heinecken's "Cliche Vary/Fetishism" and Ellen Land-Weber's large picture of a small child and a pink house being swallowed by vegetation--are striking and sophisticated images that haunt the viewer and remind him that there are few completely private thoughts. More often, however, because we are usually shown only two or three works by a single artist, the images remain enigmas about whose meaning we can only...